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Phil Noble’s July 30 column asked: Is the American Dream alive or dead?
Mr. Noble is an expert at identifying problems. His usual solution is more state money.
His piece offered no solution to the lost American Dream. Democrats have no solutions to problems today that actually work.
He said there are two South Carolinas, with great divisions of poverty, racism, isolation, hostility, violence and bloodshed between them. This is true for many states and cities in America, not just South Carolina.

S.C. businesses are much more likely to be white-owned than businesses on average in the United States, and less likely to be owned by women.
At the same time, businesses owned by men and by whites are more valuable than minority and female-owned businesses, and the difference in value in South Carolina is even greater than the average national difference.

At the end of September each year, Lancaster County mails property tax bills for real estate (homes and commercial buildings) and personal property (boats, business furniture and equipment, manufacturing, etc.).
While nobody likes getting a tax bill, it’s important that they are sent to the correct address. Having the correct address on file is the taxpayer’s responsibility, and that prevents you from having a late fee due to never receiving the bill.

Scott Edgar, the newly hired county engineer, will speak to Indian Land Action Council at 7 p.m. Aug. 17 at the Del Webb Library, 7641 Charlotte Highway (U.S. 521).
Lancaster County Council will hear second reading on a tax ordinance for a Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System (MS4) on Aug. 14. This tax money will support about four staff members to oversee the Panhandle’s stormwater.

There is nothing “right” about racism and hate. It’s a learned disease, and the best antidote is unity.
This weekend’s events involving white-supremacist groups are as disturbing and disgusting as they are heartbreaking. The attack was a stark reminder of the darkness of hate. We must come together, as we have before, to confront the issues that chip away at the very foundation of who we are and what we stand for as a country.

Mica Lauren Kennington of Kershaw and Kevin Dean Blackmon of Lancaster were married at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 20, 2017, at The Ivy Place in Lancaster by the Rev. Todd Montgomery.

The bride is the daughter of Michael and Teresa Kennington of Kershaw. She is the granddaughter of Doris Small of Lancaster and the late Charles Small and Marilyn Kennington of Heath Springs and the late Robert “Sonny” Kennington.